The object was bright yellow and had stopped it's verticle descent with no apperant decelleration, it's horizontal acceleration was ins

The fire-ball was seen to rapidly go verticly straight down from a very great height. It stopped just over the perseived horizon,(it was very black out, no moon or star light observed) It stayed there for a couple of seconds then rapidly excelerated to the south and was soon out of sight. This was on the old aligator highway a few miles west of the eastern tollbooth. I was heading west at the time.